Wladyslaw Filipkowski

Wladyslaw Filipkowski (1 May 1892-17 April 1950) was a Brigadier-General of the Polish Army who commanded the Home Army in the Lwow Uprising of 1944.

Biography
Wladyslaw Filipkowski was born on 1 May 1892 in Filipow, Privislinsky Krai, Russian Empire. He later moved to Galicia to attend Lviv University, the only place in all of Poland where people could speak the Polish language. During World War I, Filipkowski served in the Polish Legion of the Austro-Hungarian Army, and he rose in the ranks in the Interwar Years, leading an infantry unit in the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939. During World War II, he commanded Home Army units and was victorius in the Lwow Uprising of 1944 against Nazi Germany, but on 3 August 1944 he was arrested by the Soviet Union's NKVD. Only in 1947 was he released from prison after being handed over to the Polish People's Republic, and he died in Warsaw in 1950.